A Nakhon Phanom livestock development official said 1,011 dogs were being held in a government shelter after two separate raids in Nathom and Si Songkhram districts. But she said a further 119 had died from either suffocation in the cramped cages or when they were thrown from the back of the trucks as the alleged traffickers tried to flee police.
Police officer Captain Prawat Pholsuwan said two Thai men and a Vietnamese man were charged with trafficking and the illegal transportation of animals. He said the dogs were being smuggled out of the country to be cooked and eaten in Vietnam.
"The maximum punishment is a one-year jail term and a fine of up to 20,000 baht (£410)," he said. Traffickers, who round up stray dogs and barter for pets in rural Thai villages, can receive up to £20 per dog in Vietnam, police said.
Potentially upsetting video.
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It's not that I'm against eating dogs, I eat animals that other people would keep as pets. I even eat fish and keep some myself. But that really needs to be regulated and the animals humanely transported and slaughtered.
What Ratz said. Except I don't have fish.
I had to travel behind one of these trucks in Laos last year.
There were many dogs in that truck that even had collars.
Believe me when i say it's the saddest thing i've ever seen. Good to read that they're trying to do something against it!
my Thai friend told me that if they sold these dogs away alive, then the person who killed them eventually would have bad karma. But not the owner who sold them! I find that so hard to understand. So that is y many ppl are ok with selling their dogs.
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